And she weaves a terrifically vigorous plot out of how their misapprehensions of one another lead them into danger.
All this, in the name of lampooning its guileless American heroes (a Harold Lloyd lookalike and a cowboy), and their misapprehensions about Russia.
Douglas Coupland chats to Warhol, Rebecca Miller sneaks into de Sade's prison cell, Ian Rankin contacts Arthur Conan Doyle – some to correct the misapprehensions their names have acquired in the years since their death, and others who enjoy their posthumous status.
Clearly, any implication anyone might have divined from this was a massive misapprehension on their part.
Thankfully, British papers are not burdened with the massive self-regard of certain American newspapers, which labour under the misapprehension that their architecture critic's words amount to law.
Academics speak of a desire to "emancipate readers" from their orthodoxies and misapprehensions, even though few scholars "seem to have a robust account of into what condition of existence it would be ideal for humans to be freed".
Twenty-five years later we've just had the highest rates of HIV infection among gay and bisexual men, we're blighted by significantly higher levels of drug and alcohol misuse, and teachers tell me that some of their colleagues are under the misapprehension that section 28 is still in force.
Statistically speaking, you have probably either seen or composed one of these: Thousands of people, apparently under the strange misapprehension that all their friends have joined ISIS since the last school reunion, have taken to the internet to directly address the masked instantiations of metaphysical evil.
Statistically speaking, you have probably either seen or composed one of these: thousands of people, apparently under the strange misapprehension that all their friends have joined Isis since the last school reunion, have taken to the internet to directly address the masked instantiations of metaphysical evil.
They are entirely commission driven, often have the lowest professional qualifications and work directly for the insurance firm, thus delivering inappropriate pensions and investment advice, which hapless clients normally sign up to under the misapprehension it is in their best interest.
